Comments Thread For: Top Rank's duBoef Defends Lomachenko Fighting in Smaller Venues

[Hewito]

It doesn't matter, any fighter that manages to draw that much in the current American boxing market should be praised not **** on.

Same goes for Crawford in Omaha.

For you to have a pHd in science you dont make much sense..You literally compared loma and ward and when they shut down your theory or opinion you changed your tune to but but but he shouldn't be criticized anyways..Thruth is,Loma and ward arent well know outside boxing fans,dont believe me,ask your office buddies and you will see,the diference is ,like someone mentioned,the time they both been in boxing..Loma could be very well on his way to stardom,but dont do main events,continue on undercards and little by little he will become a star..For people that says he doesnt speak english,I stilll cant understand what that means,we want him to box not to narrate a national geographic show..

[Muutt]

It doesn't matter, any fighter that manages to draw that much in the current American boxing market should be praised not **** on.

Same goes for Crawford in Omaha.

Everytime bud fights in omaha its 13000 +

[SteveM]

It doesn't matter, any fighter that manages to draw that much in the current American boxing market should be praised not **** on.

Same goes for Crawford in Omaha.

Ward is not a draw outside of Oakland and by this stage probably never will be. Crawford is only a draw in Omaha but may yet become a draw elsewhere.

It is natural that locals root for their own. This is tribal. That also translates to supporting your nation.

These foreign fighters have to have something special about them or be hyped/promoted well.

Lomachenko has unreal skills. Golovkin has a 23 fight ko streak and is overhyped.

Now tell me again, why is it that Ward can't attract outside of Oakland considering all he has achieved? Could it be because he fights in a boring way?

[HanzGruber]

Most fighters that have only 8-10 fights are fighting in small venues. That he can fill a 3,000 seat arena is not a negative.

When are newer fans going to understand that you don't just start out in front of 5-10k fans.

but hes getting paid like he sells out arenas

[The Big Dunn]

but hes getting paid like he sells out arenas

Well if he were with haymon then#JoeMan would be whining and complaining.

If HBO pays a huge site fee and Loma gets most of it, nothing we can do about it. I think its better to be in a sold out smaller venue then be in a large venues with a ton of empty seats (or worse people filled in the seats that clearly just took the free tix).

[boxingitis]

Sucks but boxing needs a villain right now!.

Closest who could do it is Jermall Charlo and Tyson Fury!

Broner is a character but he's been toned down to the point where his interviews have become boring a bit!

Lomachengo doing the right thing by fighting guys who are world champs and solid fighters but hopefully he picks up on English more, he's gotten better but may take him another 2 years to really get him attract casual fans!

Boxing is great right now.
Thurman vs Garcia
GGG vs Jacobs
Klistchko vs Joshua
Canelo vs Jr
Loma vs Sosa
Stevens vs Lemuix
We just had Vargas vs Berchelt

[Motorcity Cobra]

Considering Loma's ratings and attendance, he's another Rigo. Except Rigo got paid a lot less and no support from Arum. Hmmm...

[ShoulderRoll]

Ward is not a draw outside of Oakland and by this stage probably never will be.

And Lomachenko is not a draw anywhere. Neither is Kovalev to give another example.

Yet I don't see posters constantly bashing them for it like they do Ward.

I wonder why that is.

[Andrij]

Lomachenko simply has to learn and speak English.Thats the main problem.GGG & Kovalev fluently speak English and they can sell out much bigger arenas.

[HeroBando]

Considering Loma's ratings and attendance, he's another Rigo. Except Rigo got paid a lot less and no support from Arum. Hmmm...

Yeah it's really odd that a promoter would prefer a guy that's also an elite talent, but much more crowd pleasing, willing and able to move up to divisions where there's more money, younger, better looking and not banned from Hbo